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mightydin's "Dystopia Novels: A Reading List"

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These are societies that, like "Brave New World," were intended to be Utopias, at least for some.

Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction and series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only.

  1. 1.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  2. 2.
    After
    by Francine Prose
  3. 3.
    All Tomorrow's Parties
    by William Gibson
  4. 4.
    Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan
  5. 5.
    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  6. 6.
    Ambient (Jack Womack)
    by Jack Womack
  7. 7.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  8. 8.
    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley
  9. 9.
    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq
  10. 10.
    Bar Code Rebellion
    by Suzanne Weyn
  11. 11.
    The Bar Code Tattoo
    by Suzanne Weyn
  12. 12.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder
  13. 13.
    Bend Sinister
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  14. 14.
    Book of Dave, The
    by Will Self
  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  16. 16.
    Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley
  17. 17.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  18. 18.
    Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
    by Ignatius Donnelly
  19. 19.
    The Children of Men
    by P.D. James
  20. 20.
    The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics)
    by John Wyndham
  21. 21.
    Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom
    by David Wingrove
  22. 22.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders
  23. 23.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  24. 24.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell
  25. 25.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson
  26. 26.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler
  27. 27.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany
  29. 29.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  30. 30.
    Divided Kingdom
    by Rupert Thomson
  31. 31.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  32. 32.
  33. 33.
    The Domination
    by S.M. Stirling
  34. 34.
    Drowning Towers
    by George Turner
  35. 35.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card
  36. 36.
    The Ethos Effect
    by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
  37. 37.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury
  38. 38.
    Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis)
    by Robert Harris
  39. 39.
    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson
  40. 40.
    The Fifth Sacred Thing
    by Starhawk
  41. 41.
    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  42. 42.
    Flashforward
    by Robert J. Sawyer
  43. 43.
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    by Philip K. Dick
  44. 44.
    Foundation and Earth
    by Isaac Asimov
  45. 45.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  46. 46.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry
  47. 47.
    The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ernst Junger
  48. 48.
    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem
  49. 49.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  50. 50.
    Heathern (Jack Womack)
    by Jack Womack
  51. 51.
    Hex
    by Rhiannon Lassiter
  52. 52.
    I Am Legend
    by Richard Matheson
  53. 53.
    Idoru
    by William Gibson
  54. 54.
    The Immortals
    by Tracy Hickman
  55. 55.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  56. 56.
    In the Country of Last Things
    by Paul Auster
  57. 57.
    Invitation to the Game
    by Monica Hughes
  58. 58.
    Iron Heel
    by Jack London
  59. 59.
    It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis
  60. 60.
    The Jagged Orbit
    by John Brunner
  61. 61.
    Jennifer Government
    by Max Barry
  62. 62.
    Kallocain
    by Karin Boye
  63. 63.
    Lanark (Harvest Book)
    by Alasdair Gray
  64. 64.
    The Last Book In The Universe
    by Rodman Philbrick
  65. 65.
    The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  66. 66.
    Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
    by Mordecai Roshwald
  68. 68.
    Logan's Run (Logan)
    by William F. Nolan
  69. 69.
    The Long Walk
    by Stephen King
  70. 70.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  71. 71.
    Lost Souls
    by Poppy Z. Brite
  72. 72.
    The Machine Stops
    by E. M. Forster
  73. 73.
    Make Room! Make Room!
    by Harry Harrison
  74. 74.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  75. 75.
    Market Forces
    by Richard K. Morgan
  76. 76.
    Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    by Stanislaw Lem
  77. 77.
    The Memoirs of a Survivor
    by Doris Lessing
  78. 78.
    Metropole
    by Ferenc Karinthy
  79. 79.
    Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis
  80. 80.
    Mona Lisa Overdrive
    by William Gibson
  81. 81.
    Moscow - 2042
    by Vladimir Voinovich
  82. 82.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs
  83. 83.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  84. 84.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  85. 85.
    News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Morris
  86. 86.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  87. 87.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs
  88. 88.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood
  89. 89.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler
  90. 90.
    Parable of the Talents
    by Octavia E. Butler
  91. 91.
  92. 92.
    Player Piano: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  93. 93.
    The Postman
    by David Brin
  94. 94.
    Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  96. 96.
    Return to Isis
    by Jean Stewart
  97. 97.
    Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
    by Russell Hoban
  98. 98.
    The Road
    by Cormac McCarthy
  99. 99.
    The Running Man
    by Stephen King
  100. 100.
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)
    by Karel Capek
  101. 101.
    A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
    by Philip K. Dick
  102. 102.
    Seed to Harvest
    by Octavia E. Butler
  103. 103.
    Shade's Children
    by Garth Nix
  104. 104.
    The Sheep Look Up
    by John Brunner
  105. 105.
    The Shockwave Rider
    by John Brunner
  106. 106.
    The Shore of Women
    by Pamela Sargent
  107. 107.
    The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  108. 108.
    Sleepwalking
    by Nicola Morgan
  109. 109.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson
  110. 110.
    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl
  111. 111.
    Specimen Days: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham
  112. 112.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Ira Levin
  113. 113.
    The Supernaturalist.
    by Eoin Colfer
  114. 114.
    Swan Song
    by Robert McCammon
  115. 115.
    Swastika Night
    by Katharine Burdekin
  116. 116.
    This Other Eden
    by Ben Elton
  117. 117.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  118. 118.
    Time Out of Joint
    by Philip K. Dick
  119. 119.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  120. 120.
    Utopia X
    by Wilson
  121. 121.
    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore
  122. 122.
    Veracity
    by Mark Lavorato
  123. 123.
    Virtual Light
    by William Gibson
  124. 124.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess
  125. 125.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek
  126. 126.
    We
    by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  127. 127.
    Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  128. 128.
    When Gravity Fails
    by George Alec Effinger
  129. 129.
    When the Sleeper Awakes
    by H. G, Wells
  130. 130.
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    by Marge Piercy
  131. 131.
    The World Inside
    by Robert Silverberg
  132. 132.
    A World Out of Time
    by Larry Niven
  133. 133.
    Yawning Heights
    by Aleksandr Zinov'ev
  134. 134.
    The Year of the Flood: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  135. 135.
    The Unit
    by Ninni Holmqvist
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